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Sydney, Jan 17: The deep sea hunt for missing flight MH370 has been suspended after nearly three years without result, the Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments said Tuesday. The Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March, 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew. The plane "has not been located" in the 120,000 square kilometre (46,000 square mile

Istanbul, Jan 17: A gunman suspected of killing 39 people during a New Year's attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been caught in a police operation, Turkish media reports said early Tuesday. The suspect was captured in a special operations police raid on a house in Istanbul's Esenyurt district, private NTV television reported. The broadcaster said he had been staying in the house belonging to a

Bishkek, Jan 16: A Turkish Airlines cargo plane crashed into a village near Kyrgyzstan's main airport today, killing 32 people and destroying homes after attempting to land in thick fog, authorities said. The majority of the dead were from the village of Dacha-Suu where the cargo plane crashed at around 7.30 am local time, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, Muhammed Svarov said. The

Natal (Brazil), Jan 16: The latest in a string of brutal prison massacres involving suspected gang members in Brazil has killed 26 inmates, most of whom were beheaded, officials have said. The bloodbath erupted Saturday night in the overcrowded Alcacuz prison in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte. Similar violence at other jails in Brazil left around 100 inmates dead in early January.

Karachi, Jan 15: China has handed over two ships to the Pakistan Navy to safeguard the strategic Gwadar port and trade routes under the USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a move likely to raise alarm in India. China handed over the two ships to the Pakistan Navy yesterday for joint security along the sea route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Dawn News reported. The

Beirut, Jan 15: The ISIS on Saturday launched one of its fiercest assaults yet on the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, leaving more than 30 regime fighters and jihadists dead. The brutal attack -- on a day that saw many outbreaks of violence across Syria -- came as the political opposition said it "supported" upcoming peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana. The negotiations will attempt to

Washington, Jan 14: President-elect Donald Trump's national security adviser and Russia's ambassador to the US have been in frequent contact in recent weeks, including on the day the Obama administration hit Moscow with sanctions in retaliation for election-related hacking, a senior U.S. official said Friday. After initially denying that Flynn and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak spoke Dec. 29, a Trump

Jan 13: The US risks a “large-scale war” with China if it attempts to blockade islands in the South China Sea, Chinese state media has said, adding that if recent statements become policy when Donald Trump takes over as president “the two sides had better prepare for a military clash”. China has controversially built fortifications and artificial islands across the South China Sea. Rex Tillerson

Washington, Jan 13: President Barack Obama has awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, in a surprise tribute to his White House partner of 8 years. Obama described the former Delaware senator as "the best vice president America's ever had" and a "lion of American history", during an emotional ceremony to honour the 74-year-old at

Washington, Jan 12: The United States Senate, on early Thursday, passed a measure to take the first step forward to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law, responding to pressure to move quickly, even as Republicans and President-elect Trump grapple with what to replace it with. The nearly party line 51-48 vote came on a non-binding Republican backed budget measure that eases the way